Publishing: Bidding for Che

When Bolivian troops seized and killed
Ernesto ("Che") Guevara last October, they got an unexpected
dividend.

Among Che's possessions they found a 30,000-word diary, written in his
own hand in Spanish and detailing all his activities from the time he
arrived in Bolivia in 1966 almost up to the day of his capture. The
government used excerpts from the diary to convict French Agitator
Jules Regis Debray for aiding the guerrillas. It also arrested some 20
Bolivians who were mentioned as collaborators. Then, once the political
usefulness of the diary had been exhausted, it was put up for sale.